{"id":41087,"date":"2026-02-17T09:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=41087"},"modified":"2026-03-27T16:21:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T20:21:42","slug":"greenville-journal-spotlights-furmans-bicentennial-kickoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/greenville-journal-spotlights-furmans-bicentennial-kickoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenville Journal spotlights Furman&#8217;s bicentennial kickoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jay King of <a href=\"https:\/\/greenvillejournal.com\/education\/furman-university-celebrates-200-years-of-paladin-history\/\">Greenville Journal<\/a> wrote an extensive piece about Furman University&#8217;s 200-year anniversary, which officially opened with a convocation and other events Thursday, Feb. 12. He noted comments from President Elizabeth Davis, President Emeritus David Shi &#8217;73 and alumnus Regenald Garrett &#8217;98, senior pastor at Jubilee Baptist Church, all of whom recounted pivotal and often uncomfortable moments in Furman&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut 200 years teaches us hard times call for courage, fracture calls for building community,\u201d Davis said. \u201cFurman is and will be a place where students learn how to think, not what to think, where they practice listening to perspectives that challenge their own (and) where they discover discomfort isn\u2019t danger and disagreement isn\u2019t disrespect.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jay King of Greenville Journal writes an extensive piece about Furman&#8217;s Bicentennial Convocation and other events. He quotes many of the speakers from the Feb. 12 ceremony including Elizabeth Davis, David Shi &#8217;73 and Regenald Garrett &#8217;98.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":41099,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,3404,119,6,90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-bicentennial","category-greenville-journal","category-in-the-news","category-president"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41087"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41716,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41087\/revisions\/41716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}